The Voice of Germany / Season 6

Season 6 of The Voice of Germany
Episodes	17th
Country of production	Germany
Manufacturing company	Talpa Germany
First broadcast	October 20, 2016 - December 18, 2016 on ProSieben and Sat.1
regularity	Thursdays (until December 8, 2016) and Sundays
occupation
Moderation	Thore Schölermann Lena Gercke
other contributors	Coaches Samu Haber Yvonne Catterfeld Michi Beck and Smudo Andreas Bourani
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The sixth season of the singing talent show The Voice of Germany was broadcast on television from October 20 to December 18, 2016. Like the previous season , it was moderated by Thore Schölermann and Lena Gercke . The jury included the jury duo Smudo and Michi Beck from the hip-hop band Die Fantastischen Vier , the songwriter Andreas Bourani , the songwriter, guitarist and singer Samu Haber and, for the first time, the singer and actress Yvonne Catterfeld . The winner was Tay Schmedtmann from the coaching group of Andreas Bourani.

Unlike in the previous seasons, Sat.1 broadcast the show on Sundays.

First phase: the blind auditions

The castings for the sixth season took place from February to April 2016, but were not shown on television. The blind auditions were recorded from July 5 to 9, 2016 in the Adlershof studio in Berlin and broadcast in nine television programs from October 20 to November 17, 2016. The jury selected 73 candidates - two of them trios - in the second phase, in which Samu Haber, Yvonne Catterfeld and Michi and Smudo with 18 each and Andreas Bourani with 19 candidates moved in.

The nineteen candidates Danyal Demir, Marc Amacher, Mathea Elisabeth Höller, Ruth Lomboto, Stas Schurins, Friedemann Petter, Robin Resch, Anja Kraml, Marie Claudia Apenou, Joel Guzman, Florian Unger, Tay Schmedtmann, Vanessa Iraci, Leon Braje received all four jury votes , Alessio Loriga, Elena Ancuta Stegaru, Sem Eisinger, Jayla Brown and Jonas Hug. Of these, five each decided on Yvonne Catterfeld, Samu Haber and Andreas Bourani and four on Michi and Smudo as coach.

episode	The coaches and their candidates
	Samu Haber	Yvonne Catterfeld	Michi and Smudo	Andreas Bourani
01	Bünyamin Yazici	Vera Tavares Darius Zander	Danyal Demir Michael Wansch Marc Amacher	Marina mast
02	Dorothea Proschko Stas Schurins	Mathea Elisabeth Höller Pauline Steinbrecher	Georg Stengel Ruth Lomboto	Michael Caliman
03	Robin Resch Dehua Hu	Friedemann Petter Victoria Mishchenko	Shpresim Ahmeti Lukas Raufenlin	Anna-Maria Nemetz Lucie Fischer
04	Andreas Steiger Louisa Jones Florian Unger	Anja Kraml Marie Claudia Apenou	Sally Grayson Martin Menzel	Joel Guzman
05	Andrina Travers Vanessa Iraci	Flávio Martins Viktoriya Andonova	Lara Trautmann	Daniel Ferrer Homsing Ronra Shimray Tay Schmedtmann
06	Maja Endres	Jonny vom Dahl Alessio Loriga	Florentina Krasniqi Robert Ildefonso Celena Pieper	Daniela Oude Kotte Leon Braje Sarah Maier, Maria Vogl-Fernheim and Teresa Pleger
07	Anna-Lena Schäfer Nicole Bührer Sem Eisinger	Angelina Schmigelski Boris Alexander Stein Artur Molin	Elena Ancuta Stegaru Marco Pinto	Sarah Sacher
08	Laura Ritter Vincenzo Iuzzolini Fabian Ludwig	Nico Laska	Yasmin Sidibe	Theresa Gratzl Neo Kaliske Adrian Schiele Jayla Brown
09	Fabian Blesin	Mimoza, Vjollca and Shkurte Mustafa Daria Müller	Selina Grinberg Marijana Maksimovic	Steven Sylvester Ludkowski Daniel Moczarski Jonas Hug
total	18th	18th	18th	19th

Second phase: the battle round

The Battle Round was recorded in Berlin from August 31 to September 2, 2016 and broadcast in four television programs from November 20 to December 1, 2016. In Andreas Bourani's group of 19 candidates, eight one-on-one duels and one three-way battle took place; in the other three groups, the 18 candidates fought nine one-on-one duels each. The respective coach selected one of the battle participants directly into the next phase. As in the third to fifth season, some inferior battle candidates also got into the next phase if one of the other coaches took them over. All four coaches each took on a candidate from a different group, so that all four coaching groups with ten participants went into the next phase.

episode	Coach	Battle	Candidate directly elected	song	Inferior candidate		New coach of the losing candidate
10	Yvonne Catterfeld	1	Alessio Loriga	Oh Jonny from Jan Delay	Darius Zander		-
	Andreas Bourani	2	Lucie Fischer	You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette	Marina mast		-
	Michi and Smudo	3	Danyal Demir	Pillowtalk from Zayn	Shpresim Ahmeti		-
	Samu Haber	4th	Florian Unger	Be music by Wincent Weiss	Bünyamin Yazici		Andreas Bourani
	Yvonne Catterfeld	5	Boris Alexander Stein	Use Somebody from Kings of Leon	Daria Müller		-
	Samu Haber	6th	Fabian Ludwig	Magnetized by Tom Odell	Sem Eisinger		-
	Andreas Bourani	7th	Tay Schmedtmann	I run from Tim Bendzko	Sarah Maier, Teresa Pleger and Maria Vogl-Fernheim		-
	Michi and Smudo	8th	Marc Amacher	Sweet Transvestite by Tim Curry	Michael Wansch		-
11	Andreas Bourani	9	Michael Caliman	Sledgehammer from Rihanna	Anna-Maria Nemetz		Samu Haber
	Michi and Smudo	10	Robert Ildefonso	Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio featuring LV	Marco Pinto		-
	Samu Haber	11	Laura Ritter	I Hate U, I Love You by Gnash featuring Olivia O'Brien	Fabian Blesin		-
	Michi and Smudo	12	Ruth Lomboto	The Boy Is Mine by Brandy & Monica	Elena Ancuta Stegaru		-
	Andreas Bourani	13	Joel Guzman	Master Blaster (Jammin ') by Stevie Wonder	Jayla Brown		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	14th	Flávio Martins	Umbrella by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z	Mimoza, Vjollca and Shkurte Mustafa		-
	Andreas Bourani	15th	Neo Kaliske	I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) from The Proclaimers	Daniela Oude Kotte		-
	Samu Haber	16	Stas Shurins	Can't Stop the Feeling! by Justin Timberlake	Vincenzo Iuzzolini		-
	Michi and Smudo	17th	Lara Trautmann	A thousand tears deep from Blumfeld	Martin Menzel		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	18th	Vera Tavares	Halo from Beyoncé	Victoria Mishchenko		-
12	Yvonne Catterfeld	19th	Mathea Elisabeth Höller	Sober from Pink	Anja Kraml		-
	Samu Haber	20th	Andreas Steiger	Calm After the Storm by The Common Linnets	Louisa Jones		-
	Michi and Smudo	21st	Sally Grayson	Little Numbers by Boy	Celena Pieper		-
	Andreas Bourani	22nd	Leon Braje	Summer rain from Joris	Sarah Sacher	Adrian Schiele	-
	Michi and Smudo	23	Lukas Raufenlin	Your hurray from bosses	Georg Stengel		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	24	Marie Claudia Apenou	Elastic Heart by Sia featuring The Weeknd and Diplo	Artur Molin		-
	Andreas Bourani	25th	Daniel Moczarski	Closer to the Edge from 30 Seconds to Mars	Homsing Ronra Shimray		-
	Samu Haber	26th	Andrina Travers	Just Like Fire by Pink	Nicole Buehrer		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	27	Friedemann Petter	Back from Flo Mega	Jonny vom Dahl		Michi and Smudo
13	Yvonne Catterfeld	28	Nico Laska	Crazy from Gnarls Barkley	Viktoriya Andonova		-
	Michi and Smudo	29	Yasmin Sidibe	Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House	Selina Grinberg		-
	Andreas Bourani	30th	Jonas Hug	Eternity / The Road to Mandalay by Robbie Williams	Theresa Gratzl		-
	Samu Haber	31	Robin Resch	Lost Boy by Ruth B	Dehua Hu		-
	Michi and Smudo	32	Florentina Krasniqi	Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara	Marijana Maksimovic		-
	Samu Haber	33	Anna-Lena Schäfer	June moon from Rio Reiser	Maja Endres		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	34	Pauline Steinbrecher	If I Go by Ella Eyre	Angelina Schmigelski		-
	Andreas Bourani	35	Steven Sylvester Ludkowski	You Don't Know Love by Olly Murs	Daniel Ferrer		-
	Samu Haber	36	Dorothea Proschko	Masterpiece by Jessie J	Vanessa Iraci		Yvonne Catterfeld

The coaches and their candidates after the battles
Samu Haber	Yvonne Catterfeld	Michi and Smudo	Andreas Bourani
Florian Unger Fabian Ludwig Laura Ritter Stas Schurins Andreas Steiger Andrina Travers Robin Resch Anna-Lena Schäfer Dorothea Proschko Anna-Maria Nemetz	Alessio Loriga Boris Alexander Stein Flávio Martins Vera Tavares Mathea Elisabeth Höller Marie Claudia Apenou Friedemann Petter Nico Laska Pauline Steinbrecher Vanessa Iraci	Danyal Demir Marc Amacher Robert Ildefonso Ruth Lomboto Lara Trautmann Sally Grayson Lukas Raufenlin Yasmin Sidibe Florentina Krasniqi Jonny vom Dahl	Lucie Fischer Tay Schmedtmann Michael Caliman Joel Guzman Neo Kaliske Leon Braje Daniel Moczarski Jonas Hug Steven Sylvester Ludkowski Bünyamin Yazici
10 (9 + 1)	10 (9 + 1)	10 (9 + 1)	10 (9 + 1)

Third phase: Sing Off

The third phase, this time called “Sing Off”, was recorded on September 30th and October 1st, 2016 in Berlin and broadcast in two television programs on December 4th and 8th, 2016. The participants were supported in the preparation by Robbie Williams , Emeli Sandé , Alicia Keys and Shawn Mendes . In Sing Off, each of the 40 remaining participants performed a song; each coach selected three of his ten candidates for the live show phase. Of the twelve live show participants, six received all four jury votes in the blind auditions, namely Marc Amacher, Tay Schmedtmann, Friedemann Petter, Florian Unger, Robin Resch and Stas Schurins.

episode	Coach	Appearance	candidate	song
14th	Michi and Smudo	1	Lara Trautmann	Dernière danse from Indila
		2	Danyal Demir	Say You Won't Let Go by James Arthur
		3	Jonny vom Dahl	Hold on to your love by Rio Reiser
		4th	Marc Amacher	Personal Jesus from Depeche Mode
		5	Florentina Krasniqi	Into You by Ariana Grande
		6th	Ruth Lomboto	I Just Can't Stop Loving You by Michael Jackson featuring Siedah Garrett
		7th	Lukas Raufenlin	Fresh start for Clueso
		8th	Yasmin Sidibe	Rather Be from Clean Bandit
		9	Sally Grayson	Worry by Jack Garratt
		10	Robert Ildefonso	Mercy from Duffy
	Andreas Bourani	11	Michael Caliman	Nothing Compares 2 U from The Family
		12	Bünyamin Yazici	Choirs by Mark Forster
		13	Steven Sylvester Ludkowski	Don't Lose My Number by Phil Collins
		14th	Joel Guzman	Georgia on My Mind by Hoagy Carmichael
		15th	Leon Braje	Symphony of Silvermoon
		16	Lucie Fischer	Next to Me by Emeli Sandé
		17th	Daniel Moczarski	Hero by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott
		18th	Neo Kaliske	Don't Look Back in Anger from Oasis
		19th	Tay Schmedtmann	I breathe in from Roger Cicero
		20th	Jonas Hug	Save Tonight by Eagle-Eye Cherry
15th	Yvonne Catterfeld	21st	Mathea Elisabeth Höller	Purple Rain by Prince
		22nd	Alessio Loriga	20,000 miles from Xavier Naidoo
		23	Nico Laska	Keep Your Head Up by Ben Howard
		24	Vanessa Iraci	Hallelujah from Alicia Keys
		25th	Marie Claudia Apenou	Hotter than Hell by Dua Lipa
		26th	Friedemann Petter	No roses from Teesy
		27	Flávio Martins	Cold Water by Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ
		28	Pauline Steinbrecher	Fire Under My Feet by Leona Lewis
		29	Boris Alexander Stein	Eiserner Steg by Philipp Poisel
		30th	Vera Tavares	I Say a Little Prayer by Dionne Warwick
	Samu Haber	31	Fabian Ludwig	Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes
		32	Florian Unger	Men don't cry by Adesse featuring Sido
		33	Laura Ritter	Habits (Stay High) by Tove Lo
		34	Anna-Lena Schäfer	One of these stones by Sido featuring Mark Forster
		35	Dorothea Proschko	Whataya Want from Me by Adam Lambert
		36	Andreas Steiger	Human from Rag 'n' Bone Man
		37	Andrina Travers	Best of You by Foo Fighters
		38	Robin Resch	Wonderwall from Oasis
		39	Anna-Maria Nemetz	Paparazzi from Lady Gaga
		40	Stas Shurins	Skyscraper by Demi Lovato

Fourth phase: the live shows

There were two live broadcasts on December 11th and 18th, 2016 in Berlin. This reduced the number of live shows compared to previous seasons: there were seven live shows in season 1, six in season 2, four in seasons 3 and 4, and three in season 5. Both live broadcasts were broadcast by the television station Sat.1. As in season 5, the coaches did not distribute percentage points, but all decisions were made by televoting by the audience.

First live show (semifinals)

In the first live show on December 11, 2016, four of the twelve candidates advanced: In each coaching group, the three participants performed a song one after the other, after which the audience televoted one of them to the final.

Max Giesinger performed his song 80 million with the twelve candidates.

Coach	Appearance	candidate	song	Televoting
Andreas Bourani	1	Michael Caliman	License to Kill from Gladys Knight	06.7%
	2	Lucie Fischer	Hungry heart of Mia	12.5%
	3	Tay Schmedtmann	How beautiful you are from Sarah Connor	80.9%
Samu Haber	4th	Stas Shurins	Rise Up by Andra Day	34.2%
	5	Florian Unger	Hand in hand by Julian le Play	10.0%
	6th	Robin Resch	Chasing Cars from Snow Patrol	55.8%
Yvonne Catterfeld	7th	Friedemann Petter	Bye bye from Cro	08.4%
	8th	Vera Tavares	Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson	35.4%
	9	Boris Alexander Stein	Still from Jupiter Jones	56.2%
Michi and Smudo	10	Robert Ildefonso	Beggin ' by The Four Seasons	35.2%
	11	Yasmin Sidibe	Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye featuring Kimbra	12.2%
	12	Marc Amacher	TNT from AC / DC	52.6%

Second live show (final)

The second live show, the finale, took place on December 18, 2016. Each participant in the final performed a song, sang a duet with his coach and another duet with a guest artist: Boris Alexander Stein sang with OneRepublic , Marc Amacher with Emeli Sandé , Tay Schmedtmann with John Legend , Robin Resch with James Arthur . All four finalists sang Alicia Keys' hit If I Ain't Got You at the beginning of the show . Keys also performed her new song Blended Family (What You Do for Love) .

Tay Schmedtmann and Robin Resch were chosen by televoting as the two artists who were allowed to perform their own new song. After Resch sang his song Disneyland and Schmedtmann his song Lauf Baby Lauf , Tay Schmedtmann came up with a televoting result of almost 54 percent. This was the first time that Andreas Bourani's protégé won the competition.

rank	candidate	Coach	Songs		Televoting 1	Televoting 2
1	Tay Schmedtmann	Andreas Bourani	Cover version	She doesn't see me from Xavier Naidoo		53.87%
			Duet with coach	Iceberg by Andreas Bourani
			Duet with guest artist	Love Me Now by John Legend
			own song	Run baby run
2	Robin Resch	Samu Haber	Cover version	Photograph by Ed Sheeran		46.13%
			Duet with coach	Hollywood Hills from Sunrise Avenue
			Duet with guest artist	Say You Won't Let Go by James Arthur
			own song	Disneyland
3	Marc Amacher	Michi and Smudo	Cover version	Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz		-
			Duet with coach	Harvest what we sow from Die Fantastischen Vier
			Duet with guest artist	Breathing Underwater by Emeli Sandé
4th	Boris Alexander Stein	Yvonne Catterfeld	Cover version	Demo (last day) by Herbert Grönemeyer		-
			Duet with coach	Something by Yvonne Catterfeld featuring Bengio
			Duet with guest artist	Let's Hurt Tonight from OneRepublic

Audience ratings

On average, 3.58 million viewers saw the sixth season of The Voice of Germany on ProSieben and Sat.1, the market share of the total audience was 11.2 percent. In the target group of 14 to 49 year olds, an average of 2.19 million viewers watched, corresponding to a market share of 19.2 percent.

episode	broadcast	Channel	date	spectator		Market share		source
				total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
01	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Oct. 20, 2016	4.10 million	2.52 million	13.4%	23.1%
02	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Oct. 23, 2016	4.02 million	2.48 million	11.6%	19.3%
03	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Oct. 27, 2016	4.02 million	2.46 million	13.2%	23.4%
04	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Oct. 30, 2016	4.12 million	2.53 million	12.2%	20.6%
05	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Nov 3, 2016 0	3.90 million	2.47 million	12.8%	23.5%
06	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Nov 6, 2016 0	4.19 million	2.45 million	11.8%	18.5%
07	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Nov 10, 2016	3.86 million	2.39 million	12.5%	22.2%
08	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Nov 13, 2016	3.71 million	2.33 million	10.5%	17.4%
09	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Nov 17, 2016	3.74 million	2.31 million	12.0%	21.5%
10	Battle Round	Sat 1	Sun, Nov 20, 2016	3.39 million	2.01 million	9.6%	15.2%
11	Battle Round	ProSieben	Thu, Nov. 24, 2016	3.15 million	1.97 million	10.8%	19.5%
12	Battle Round	Sat 1	Sun, Nov. 27, 2016	3.12 million	1.94 million	9.0%	14.9%
13	Battle Round	ProSieben	Thu, Dec. 1, 2016 0	3.50 million	2.21 million	11.6%	21.7%
14th	Sing off	Sat 1	Sun, Dec. 4, 2016 0	3.05 million	1.83 million	9.6%	15.7%
15th	Sing off	ProSieben	Thu, Dec 8, 2016 0	2.79 million	1.72 million	10.2%	18.2%
16	Live show	Sat 1	Sun, Dec 11, 2016	3.04 million	1.73 million	9.8%	15.1%
17th	Live show	Sat 1	Sun, Dec 18, 2016	3.08 million	1.81 million	10.4%	16.2%

Web links

• The Voice of Germany website
• The Voice of Germany on fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

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